Prostatitis is called jingtou in Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine treatment includes internal treatment and external treatment, internal treatment is mainly to identify the evidence, external treatment includes warm water sitz bath, etc..
1. Internal treatment
(1) Dampness-heat condensation (dampness and heat evils accumulate with each other in the body): symptoms of frequent urination, urgency, pain in urination, pain in urination with burning sensation, yellow and greasy moss, slippery pulse. The formula is gentian diarrhea liver soup plus subtractions. Note that this formula should not be used in cases of deficiency of spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weak and cold) and deficiency of yin and hyperactivity of yang (deficiency of yin fluid and hyperactivity of yang qi).
(2) Qi stagnation and blood stasis (stagnation of blood due to lack of circulation of Qi): pain in the abdomen, lumbar-sacral region and testicles, feeling of incomplete urination, dark tongue with petechiae, and dull and astringent pulse. Prescription: add and subtract prostate soup. The adverse reactions and contraindications of this product are not clear.
(3) Yin deficiency and fire exuberance (deficiency of Yin and essence in the body, resulting in hyperactive fire): symptoms include occasional whitish turbidity during urination or defecation (cloudy urine like white pulp), lumbar soreness and weakness of the knees, and hot flashes (a burst of fever). The formula is Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan plus reduction. The adverse reactions and contraindications of this product are not clear.
(4) Kidney-Yang deficiency: dribbling urination, lumbar and knee soreness, impotence and premature ejaculation, cold body, pale and fat tongue, and thin pulse. The formula is Jisheng Kidney Qi Pill plus subtractions. Caution should be exercised for pregnant women, people with congestion of dampness-heat (excessive dampness-heat and stagnation in the body), wind-water (sudden edema of the head, face and limbs), and pan-overflow edema.
2. External treatment
(1) Warm water sitz bath: 15 minutes each time, once a day.
(2) Wild chrysanthemum suppositories or prostate suppositories inserted into the anus 3 to 4 cm, twice a day.
The specific treatment of prostatitis in Chinese medicine should consult the clinician, do not unauthorized use of drugs.